no gnu
no gnu
Posted Aug 22, 2009 23:03 UTC (Sat) by sethml (guest, #8471)In reply to: no gnu by dbruce
Parent article: 40 years of Unix (BBC)
We had GNU tools without the Linux kernel for quite a few years. In '89 and '90, before
Linux was useful, I ran a cluster of HPUX machines. We had all the GNU tools compiled
and on the PATH before the HP tools because the GNU tools were much more fully-
featured and less buggy, plus we didn't have the funds to pay for HP's good compiler. Still, I
wouldn't have called them GNU/HPUX.
Linux was useful, I ran a cluster of HPUX machines. We had all the GNU tools compiled
and on the PATH before the HP tools because the GNU tools were much more fully-
featured and less buggy, plus we didn't have the funds to pay for HP's good compiler. Still, I
wouldn't have called them GNU/HPUX.
Without GNU I'm sure a perfectly reasonable compiler and userland would have been written
and found for Linux-based systems, but much of it would not have been as fully-featured or
as consistent.